TV3 weatherman Deric Ó hArtagáin came in for a barrage of criticism from farmers online this week when he compared eating Easter lamb to eating a human baby.

The TV presenter, who hails from a farm and completed his Green Cert, tweeted an image of a young lamb on a cellophane-wrapped meat tray sucking on a baby’s soother.

The farming community on Twitter was quick to tackle Ó hArtagáin on the image and within hours the presenter had deleted it and replaced it with a cow grazing grass.

It was surprising to see him being retweeted by Bord Bia just days later on a well-known fruit farm.